MX 17/18 Repository: The Foliate Ebook Reader Thread

[Stevo]

Just built the latest 1.5.1, which fixes the broken F9 (sidebar toggle) keybinding as well as updates translations. You can get them early here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VUGO8 ... iehd3sTFtY

The developer might include my build fixes in the debian folder that's included with the source...

[Stevo]

And we should soon have today's 1.5.2 release in the repo:

Fixed table of contents navigation not working with some books
Fixed not being able to zoom images with Kindle books
Fixed not being able to open books with .epub3 filename extension
Fixed temporary directory not being cleaned after closing

[Stevo]

Today's 1.5.3 release is now in the test repo:

Improved Wiktionary lookup, now with links and example sentences
Improved popover footnote extraction and formatting
Added option to export annotations to BibTeX (#130)

Technical changes:

Foliate no longer bundles cheerio.

[Be OK]

In stable, foliate 1.5.3-0.1 , on install give a E: Unable to locate package foliate
foliate 1.5.3-0.1 in testing installs.

[Stevo]

In stable, foliate 1.5.3-0.1 , on install give a E: Unable to locate package foliate
foliate 1.5.3-0.1 in testing installs.

Sorry this took a while, but what the heck do you mean by "stable" in terms of MX Linux and not Debian?

If you want to install it on Debian, use my OBS repo: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show ... te/foliate

[Stevo]

Foliate 2.0.0 is now in the test repository. Changes include:

A redesigned interface that works better for smaller screens (#176)
Improved fullscreen mode with an overlaid headerbar (#4)
The headerbar and the progress bar now auto-hide, for a distraction-free reading experience
Various location information, as well as a clock, can now be displayed in the footer (#175, #233)
A new location popover (Ctrl + L) that shows reading time estimates and allows skipping to locations (#155)
E-reader style navigation: go to the previous or next page by tapping on the left or right part of the view; tap on the middle to toggle header bar and progress bar
Annotations, bookmarks, and find results now show chapter titles (#162)
When looking up words in dictionaries, the query can now be edited (#156)
New shortcut for viewing metadata (Ctrl + I) and preferences (Ctrl + ,)
A new traditional menubar, which may be displayed depending on the desktop environment
Option to use a traditional titlebar and menubar instead of a headerbar (experimental)

Reading:

Continuous scrolling layout
Option to show decorative shadows that mimic the appearance of a real book
Ability to zoom in and zoom out (#117)
Improved image viewer with "save as" option
Open copies of a book in new windows (Ctrl + N)
Reload book (Ctrl + R)
New built-in themes: Gray, Solarized, Gruvbox, Nord

Text selection:

Ability to select text across pages
Find selected text in book
Speak selected text or from the selected location (#141)

Annotations:

Spellcheck notes (requires new optional dependency "gspell")
Export annotations to Markdown (#180)
Options to use custom colors for highlights

For publishers and developers:

Support for Apple Books theme attribute, which allows books to detect themes without JavaScript (#178)
WebKit's developer tools can be enabled

Breaking changes:

The settings schemas has been reorganized
The format for custom themes has changed
Locations are now 1024 characters in size

Bug fixes:

Fixed not restoring exact last location
Fixed navigation not working with scrolled layout
Fixed font size not changing when the book uses absolute-size keywords (#173)
Fixed text cut off at margin edge (#177)
Fixed unable to open books with "#" or "?" in the file name

[Stevo]

Now updated to 2.1.1 in the test repo. Changes include:

- Fixed wrong version number.
- Fixed dictionary, translation, and Wikipedia not working in the Snap
package (#284)
- New and improved icon (#268)
- Option to disable turn page on tap (#270)
- A menu on the welcome screen for opening recent files (#69)
- Restored shortcuts for showing ToC, annotations, and bookmarks

[Stevo]

Hopefully we'll be getting 2.2.0 in the main repo very soon. Check out all the new features here!

BTW, I can't open cbr files as advertised with either our package, or their deb. I created an issue on github about that. But cbz files do work.

[Be OK]

2.2.0 is there din`t even notice it. Easy updates :) Thanks Stevo.

PS. I have no problems with cbr files.

[Stevo]

Updated to 2.3.0 in main. Getting a lot of updates after that long hiatus!

OPDS catalogs:

Catalogs are now opened in the main library window (#403)
View current location
Go to catalog start page
Reload catalog
Add current feed to catalogs
HTTP authentication support (#421)

Other changes:

Fixed unique identifier extraction for FictionBook (.fb2, .fb2.zip) files (#462)
Fixed newlines being ignored when copying text (#463)
“Turn page on tap” is now disabled in non-paginated layouts (#464)
Opening a book from the library view now closes the library window (#446)
Language and publication dates in metadata are now parsed and formatted
Export annotations from the library view

Technical changes:

New optional dependency iso-codes (>= 3.67), which provides display names for languages and regions. It is highly recommended to install this dependency.
Flag emojis are now displayed for books whose language property contains a country/region code. For the best experience, an emoji font should be installed.